Tyler Dilts

Tyler Dilts received his BA in theater from Cal State Long Beach and performed in more than sixty plays before turning his focus to writing. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times , the Los Angeles Review of Books , and The Best American Mystery Stories . He is also the author of the Long Beach Homicide series of detective novels: A King of Infinite Space , The Pain Scale , A Cold and Broken Hallelujah (an Amazon #1 bestseller) and, most recently, the Edgar Award-nominated Come...See more

Tyler Dilts received his BA in theater from Cal State Long Beach and performed in more than sixty plays before turning his focus to writing. His work has appeared in the Los Angeles Times , the Los Angeles Review of Books , and The Best American Mystery Stories . He is also the author of the Long Beach Homicide series of detective novels: A King of Infinite Space , The Pain Scale , A Cold and Broken Hallelujah (an Amazon #1 bestseller) and, most recently, the Edgar Award-nominated Come Twilight . In 2014, he was the Writer-in-Residence at John Cabot University in Rome, and in 2015 he joined the teaching staff of the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley. He currently teaches English at his alma mater, where his specialties include creative writing, crime fiction, and literary theory. He lives with his wife in Long Beach, California. Contact Tyler at www.facebook.com/tylerdiltsbooks. See less